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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short-story writer. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
Constance Clara Garnett was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. She was the first English translator to render numerous volumes of Anton Chekhov's work into English and the first to translate almost all of Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction into English. She also rendered works by Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Goncharov, Alexander Ostrovsky, and Alexander Herzen into English. Altogether, she translated 71 volumes of Russian literature, many of which are still in print today.
"The Lady with the Dog" is a short story by Anton Chekhov. First published in 1899, it describes an adulterous affair between an unhappily married Moscow banker and a young married woman that begins while both are vacationing alone in Yalta. It is one of Chekhov's most famous pieces of short fiction, and Vladimir Nabokov considered it to be one of the greatest short stories ever written.
The Duel is a novella by Anton Chekhov originally published in 1891; it was adapted for the screen by Iosif Kheifits in 1973 and by Dover Kosashvili in 2010.
"A Misfortune", sometimes translated "Misfortune", is an 1886 story by Anton Chekhov. First published in Novoye Vremya, the story concerns Sofya Petrovna, the young wife of a country notary, whose attempts to turn away a suitor only expose her own desire for him and drive her toward an affair. The main theme is sexual enthrallment, a frequent concern in Chekhov's work during this period.
"The Huntsman" is an 1885 short story by Anton Chekhov.
"A Gentleman Friend" is a short story by Anton Chekhov originally published on 20 April 1886 in Oskolki, titled "A Little Bit of Pain" and signed A. Chekhonte. On 6 July it was reprinted, unchanged, by Novosti Dnya. Under the new title it was included by Chekhov into Volume 1 of his Collected Works, published by Adolf Marks in 1899–1901.
"Agafya" is an 1886 short story by Anton Chekhov.
"Anyuta" is an 1886 short story by Anton Chekhov.
"Easter Eve" is an 1886 short story by Anton Chekhov.
"Grisha" is an 1886 short story by Anton Chekhov.
"Ivan Matveyich" is an 1886 short story by Anton Chekhov.
"The Requiem" is an 1886 short story by Anton Chekhov.
"Vanka" is an 1886 short story by Anton Chekhov.
"An Enigmatic Nature" is an 1883 short story by Anton Chekhov.
"The Grasshopper" is an 1892 short story by Anton Chekhov.
"Anna on the Neck" is an 1895 short story by Anton Chekhov
"Betrothed", translated also as "The Fiancée", is a 1903 short story by Anton Chekhov, first published in the No.12, December 1903 issue of Zhurnal Dlya Vsekh. Chekhov's last completed story, "Betrothed" features as its heroine Nadya, a young woman who escapes from a loveless betrothal and attends university, and thus asserts her independence. Another important character, Sasha, who prompts her to take this step, in the finale dies at a tuberculosis sanitarium, just as Chekhov himself was to do in 1904.
"The Witch" is an 1886 short story by Anton Chekhov.
"The Privy Councillor" is an 1886 short story by Anton Chekhov.
References
- 1 2 Polotskaya, E. A. Commentaries to Хористка. The Works of A.P. Chekhov in 12 volumes. Khudozhestvennaya Literatura. Moscow, 1960. Vol. 4, pp. 547-548
